CaseFireball1999
Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Nov 16,1999 Meteor, fireball sighting
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 105s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45sec to 1 min
- Geo
- 42.241, -88.316 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-crystal-lake-il-1999-5c26bd
In context
- Crystal Lake, IL shows up 27 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from Illinois in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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